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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term ‘Japanese internment camp’ is both grammatically and factually incorrect.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.